BOSTON -- Boston Celtics coach Brad Stevens was explaining his decision to play point guard Isaiah Thomas the entire fourth quarter on Friday night against the Charlotte Hornets when he half-jokingly deadpanned, "You know, he didn't do anything all week."
Thomas sat out four games while rehabbing from a strained groin and missed a travel-heavy stretch for the Celtics, who pingponged from Houston to Orlando to Boston to Oklahoma City to San Antonio over a nine-day stretch in which they endured three gut-punch losses and a bomb threat to their team plane.